4000 Pound "Blockbusters" in Action
HEE-FV-166 (low res)

Date:
1942
Location:
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Image(s):
Black & White
Sound(s):
Silent
Maker:
Harold E. Edgerton and Charles W. Wyckoff
Film type:
16mm
Run time:
06:34
People:
Charles Wyckoff
This slow-motion film, produced in December 1942 by Doc Edgerton and Charlie Wyckoff of MIT, shows the explosion of 4,000 pound bombs nicknamed "Blockbusters", among the largest conventional bombs used by the Royal Air Force during World War II. Experiments conducted by the U.S. Army at the Ballistic Research Laboratory and Arms and Ammunition Proof Division at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland.

Tagged: Aberdeen Proving Ground, ammunition, ballistic, high speed photography

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